Richard Kern Movies

In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire...

A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture.

The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare archive images. Art galeries present movie extracts...

The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.

The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City's...

One of Richard Kern’s most ambitious works is Fingered (1986), whose sarcastic disclaimer says “although it is not our sole intention to...

The sexual misadventures of a sexually insane girl.

Two girls are in a sparsely furnished apartment, scantily clad, and being generally unpleasant to each other.

The filmmaker Kern and a female subject in a chaotic fast-cut blend of sexual and hypnotic imagery.

Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to...

A fan tries to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart.

Elizabeth bristles at the religious directives of her parents, asserting her right to personhood outside demure hairstyles and turkey dinners,...

A documentary about composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell and his musical alter-egos, including Foetus, Steroid Maximus and Manorexia. Featuring...

A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now.

A documentary of uncompromising, outlaw, cult underground filmmaker Jim Van Bebber, covering his life from 2010-2015 while he tries to make a...

Death Valley '69 was the first music video by Sonic Youth. The video features the majority of the band in various states of bloody dismemberment...

This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), John John Jesse (Demonic Erotic painter), Jim Rose (Jim Rose...

A No-Wave erotic horror exploring the aesthetics of kink, sadism, mutilation and suicide.

Pierce is a documentary showing Richard Kern's girlfriend having her nipples pierced.

Short movie by New York photographer and cinematographer Richard Kern.